Johan Rockstrom Quotes

Fundamentally, we need a mind-shift that reconnects our development to the biosphere to ensure good and safe lives for all in the future.

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• I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Good
  • Funny
  • Myself

• I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Mind
  • Feel
  • Ready

• Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Good
  • Honesty
  • Cost

• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Trying

• Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • End
  • Look

• It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Good
  • God
  • Deep

• I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Good
  • Language
  • Cutting

• Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Good
  • Author
  • Manners

• Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Good
  • Society
  • Religious

• A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Story

• I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Good
  • Know
  • Quiet

• I'm not going to give up salt and sugar because I want to look like Adriana Lima. But I am going to work out to make myself feel good in my own body.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Future
  • Journey
  • Sad

• When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Good
  • Story
  • Process

• I've been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don't particularly like child actors. Too often, they just show up, and they've had whatever real innocence that's in a child just beaten out of them. They start to perform for you, and you can just see it coming. It's no good.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Ideas
  • Rules
  • Decisions

• If you're trying to get into the sports business, you really have to find a niche.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Sports

• Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

  

  John Adams
  • People
  • Power

• The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside -- such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Men
  • Growth
  • Clothes

• Fundamentally, we need a mind-shift that reconnects our development to the biosphere to ensure good and safe lives for all in the future.

  

  Johan Rockstrom
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Future